Fazel Taslimi is Executive VP and Head of North America R&D at Cambridge Industries USA, Inc., Santa Clara, CA. Prior to joining Cambridge, he was VP, Systems Hardware Engineering at Actiontec. Mr. Taslimi has spent over 20 years in various engineering and executive management roles at AT&T Bell Laboratories / Alcatel-Lucent and Netopia/Motorola/Google/ARRIS. He has also co-founded two Silicon Valley startups. Mr. Taslimi received his MSEE from NYU (Polytechnic Institute) and BSEE from Columbia University in City of New York. He is co-author of two pending patents.